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THE UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENSS OF MATHEMATICS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES Eugene Wigner Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" is a 1960 article written by the physicist Eugene Wigner, published in Communication in Pure and Applied Mathematics.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences by Eugene Wigner1 “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely
In 1960, E. P. Wigner published a paper titled On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, which can be construed as an examination and affirmation of Galileo's tenet that “The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics”.
1 wrz 2011 · Using Wigner's own application of group theory to nuclear physics, I hope to indicate that this effectiveness can be seen to be not so unreasonable if attention is paid to the various...
12 lis 2013 · It was put in a particularly evocative form by the physicist Eugene Wigner as the title of a lecture in 1959 in New York: ‘The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences’. He was well-qualified for the task having discovered in the 1930s that the well-established mathematical theory of groups was just what he needed ...
Symmetries and Reflections. Scientific Essays of Eugene P. Wigner.[With a Portrait.].
